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    Sep 12, 2021 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD

    by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1615

    Clues across

    6. What is grain used for food? (6)

    7. What is the transparent layer forming the front of the eye? (6)

    10. In 2017, the National Music Publishers’ Association announced that Yoko Ono would be added as a songwriter for which 1971 song? (7)

    11. In early New Zealand, what gum was used as a fire starter? (5)

    12. Which animal features on Sri Lanka’s national flag? (4)

    13. Military doctors used which anaesthetic on the battlefield during the 1846-48 Mexican-American War? (5)

    16. What is a stone hand mill for grinding grain? (5)

    17. What small disk-shaped counter is used to represent money when gambling? (4)

    20. Which planet orbits between Venus and Mars? (5)

    21/22. Which writer and television cook once ate 30 pickled

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